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1. TOTM
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I have encountered several situations where I wanted to remove an attachment from a post but without a forced delete of the actual file.

   For example both changing or removing a featured image and/or editing a gallery are fairly common edits.

   When an image is shared among posts and it is removed from a single post it is deleted from the Media Library rather than just being removed as an attachment to a single post.

   This would be a practical option as both immediate and bulk actions in the Media library.

2. spacechampion
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   This plugin does it:
   http://shibashake.com/wordpress-theme/media-library-plus-plugin

   It allows you to attach and detach single attachments or in bulk to posts, pages, custom posts, and galleries.

   I don't know why it is not in the plugin directory, but I use it and have had no problem with it.

3. TOTM
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   @spacechannel - Theres a few things I would recommend improve with the plugin but mostly trivial.

   You're correct, though, the author and his theme/plugins are not registered in the directory here.

   I've tested that plugin with 3.0.1 and it's exactly the functionality that I was looking for.

   Thank you.

4. spacechampion
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   You are welcome. I agree some improvement could be made. Best to go over to shiba's site to suggest them.

5. wlindley
   Member
   Posted 10 months ago #

   If you are looking to temporarily disable an attachment on a post or page, without deleting it or even "un-attaching" it, WordPress does actually support the post_status of "private" internally... although there is no user interface to set it.

   I wrote a tiny plugin which simply adds a check-box called "Attachment enabled" that sets the post_status to either "inherit" (the normal state) or "private".

   A "private" attachment will not be displayed by the [gallery] shortcode, nor by the AutoNav plugin; but WordPress does not (yet) prevent it from being viewed with a URL like http://www.example.com/?p=57 nor does it prevent you from downloading the actual attachment file directly.

   I hope this feature is moved into the WordPress core sometime, along with the ability for attachments to be "future postings," to have tags, taxonomies, and so on.

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